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‘I’ve had enough of this,’ said Queen as she snubbed bossy photographer

Adam Sherwin: Media Correspondent

July 12 2007, 1:00am, The Times

They are queens of their profession who strike admiration and fear in their subjects. But the celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz provoked a regal walkout when she instructed Her Majesty to lay down her crown.

The Queen offered a rare, public display of displeasure when she sat for Leibovitz, who is famed for her Vanity Fairphotographs of stars such as a pregnant Demi Moore in the nude.

A camera crew was invited to film the encounter for a fly-on-the-wall BBC One series, A Year with the Queen, made by the production company behind Wife Swap. The portrait was to commemorate the Queen’s spring visit to the United States. Leibovitz selected the white drawing room at Buckingham Palace.